Business & Finance: France's Ford

Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last
week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share
to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in
swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports
of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the
Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled
authoritatively:

''It is learned that this great manufacturing concern, which does honor
to French industry, has obtained all the...